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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Police are investigating a double shooting in the Lawncrest section of Philadelphia Sunday that left a mother and her son dead.

Police say they were called to the home on the 300 block of Stevens Street around 3:30 p.m. after a 29-year old woman found the 49-year-old mother and her 22-year old son dead. Both victims, who police have identified as Donna and Rich Muller, were shot in the head, and both were pronounced dead at the scene. One of the bodies was found in an upstairs bedroom, and the other was discovered just outside in the hallway.

Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small says the investigation into what happened is underway:

“We don’t have a motive at this time. However, we have several witnesses that were transported to homicide, and they’re being interviewed by homicide detectives right now.”

Baker, a student at Harold Washington College, was on his way back from class Thursday when the robbery and shooting happened, said neighbor and family friend Earnestine Barnette.

Baker was walking with his cousin in the 6200 block of South Campbell Avenue about 4:15 p.m. when two people ­— one armed with a handgun — got out of a dark-colored van and demanded their cellphones, police said. After the two handed over their phones, the armed robber opened fire, striking Baker in the head.

“Whatever they asked for, he gave it to them and they still shot him,” said Barnette, 51. “It’s…

Around 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Baker was walking home with a cousin in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, when a dark-colored van pulled up in the 6200 block of South Campbell Avenue, and two men got out, one of them wielding a handgun.

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The two men told Baker and his cousin to hand over their cell phones.

Police said the victims did everything right, but as the robbers walked away, one of them shouted at Baker, then shot him.